Supreme Court of Arkansas
Carlos McFerrin v. State of Arkansas
February 10, 2022638 S.W.3d 4
Summary
The court denied McFerrin’s second petition to reinvest jurisdiction in the circuit court to consider coram nobis relief and rejected his related habeas request. It held that his renewed witness-arrangement claim abused the writ, his Brady and prosecutorial-misconduct claims did not identify suppressed evidence extrinsic to the trial record, and his sufficiency and double-jeopardy claims were outside coram nobis’s limited scope. The court directed that any habeas petition must first be filed in the circuit court where McFerrin is incarcerated.